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The Romantic period involved developments in literature as well as other fields like philosophy, science, religion, and art. Romantic poetry focused on themes of nature, imagination, and childhood innocence in contrast to the rationalism of the Enlightenment. The publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 marked the beginning of a new form of poetry that saw nature as a source of inspiration and portrayed the poet as a visionary. The first generation of Romantic poets included Wordsw
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- Linda Jingle
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- EN